Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: PLAINS
Matches Found: 96

A CREOLE TRIPTYCH: 2. THE PLAINSMAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Text                    
First Line: In his bronze face a something sombre shows
Last Line: Like some light rainbow o'er the cataracts.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Work; Workers; Plains


A PRAIRIE MIRACLE, by GRACE WELSH LUTGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river's dwindled to a creek under the red sun's glare
Last Line: Relives that scene at nain.
Subject(s): Drought; Prairies; Rain; Plains


A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset deepens in the west
Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep!
Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants


ALBUMS, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me the life of the far west and the prairie
Last Line: These albums! Not unbreakable, my toys! ...
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies
Last Line: From sea to shining sea!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America


BEYOND THE RED RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds have flown their summer skies to the south
Last Line: Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark
Subject(s): Prairies; Rivers; Plains


CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand
Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


CHANGE, by GLENN C. TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more the lonesome prairie
Last Line: In days when this was the lonesome prairie.
Subject(s): Change; Prairies; Plains


DAKOTA SPRING, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The days are dusty coal men
Last Line: Waltzing to a prairie lullaby.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


FARMING, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and
Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains


GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover
Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weather—god's weather.
Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains


GREAT PLAINS IN WINTER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Great Plains (united States); Winter


HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But like remorse
Last Line: It can never stop .
Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains


INLANDER, by ALINE MICHAELIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He had lived inland all his plodding life
Last Line: At stark, dry seaweed, folded in a book.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


LULLABY FOR A PRAIRIE TOWN, by LEE ANDREW WEBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little prairie town
Last Line: Sleep.
Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Plains


MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas


METAMORPHOSIS, by J. A. PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh god, how I hate these dull barren plains
Last Line: And I'd never go east again.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


MOLLY ASTHORE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary dear! O mary fair!
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MOLLY ASTHORE, by GEORGE OGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As down by banna's banks I strayed, one evening in may
Last Line: Ah, gramachree, ma colleen oge, me molly asthore!
Variant Title(s): Maillign Mo Stoir
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MOLLY ASTORE, by THOMAS FURLONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary dear! Bright peerless flower
Last Line: My mary dear, with thee!
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


MY PRAIRIE GIRL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My prairie girl, though tanned of face
Last Line: My prairie girl.
Subject(s): Admiration; Girls; Prairies; Plains


MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains
Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die.
Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains


NATIVE BORN, by MILDRED SPARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The deep-scarred prairie soil
Last Line: Of the prairie-born.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


NEW HARVEST, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard an old man speaking to the wind
Last Line: "and his heart will run to meet a prairie wife!"
Subject(s): Harvest; Prairies; Plains


NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the high plains
Last Line: At the end
Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips


OKLAHOMA PRAIRIES, by ELIZABETH COPMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not in the path of the brazen sun
Last Line: Trails a rainbow through the grasses.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines
Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew
Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains


ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


PLAINS BORN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward from the greener places
Last Line: Round the blue rim of the known!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains


POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones in my heart
Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe.
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks


PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the sombre prairie sea
Last Line: Of placid, all-consoling sea.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE BLESSIN'S, by NORA FLADEBOE MOHBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now, yuh listen here, young feller
Last Line: They cain't never even find us, 'way out here.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I think
Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink.
Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains


PRAIRIE DAWN, by BERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stealthy coyote slinking denward on soft-padded feet
Last Line: Heart strengthened, my creator, I have watched dawn's hour with you.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky
Last Line: Behind the snarling plough.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains


PRAIRIE GRAVEYARD, by ANNE MARRIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind mutters thinly on the sagging wire
Last Line: In the centre of the huge lone land and sky.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Prairies; Graveyards; Plains


PRAIRIE HOUSES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unreasonable lenses refract the
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road
Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by.
Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


PRAIRIE STARS, by MINNIE HITE MOODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How many ages have these silent stars
Last Line: These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem!
Subject(s): Prairies; Stars; Plains


PRAIRIE TREMBLANTE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stretch of swaying grasses that sweep by
Last Line: And lonely bayous answer star to star.
Subject(s): Prairies; Sky; Stars; Plains


PRAIRIE VESPER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A doubting skeptic walked with me
Last Line: Is creed enough for me.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE VOICES, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be these the burden of our runes
Last Line: When we essay our winged steeds.
Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains


PRAIRIE WIND, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to hear the prairie wind
Last Line: Blow through the edge of town.
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


PRAIRIE WINDS, by WILLIAM EARL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O savage spirits of the air's unrest
Last Line: We trust all shall be well—where winds are still!
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


PRAIRIE WOMAN, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the dawn! I have awaked too soon
Last Line: And have not these impounded for your need.
Subject(s): Prairies; Women; Plains


SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: For here and for the afterlife
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology


SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is magic in the april rains
Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers.
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas


SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke
Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains


SOUTH BY WEST: SOUTHWEST PLAINS, by EDNA TARVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Baked dry
Last Line: In placid waiting.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no land like this land
Last Line: To feel its youth return!
Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains


SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by MURIEL H. WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: North's high call brought the winds
Last Line: All in may.
Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains


STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking
Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas


SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The red sun sinks in veils of amethyst
Last Line: The motif of this music of the plains.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Soil; Work; Workers; Plains


THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide
Last Line: The song of a million years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains


THE BAD LANDS, by JESSIE M. GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bad lands raise their lovely shoulders
Last Line: As harmonies unsung.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado
Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains


THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train
Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men.
Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains


THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies!
Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States


THE CATTLE COUNTRY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the dusk-enfolded prairie
Last Line: Holds it in his hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Cattle; Prairies; Plains


THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night and full moon
Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains


THE FREE WIND, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went and worked in a drippin' mine
Last Line: And my hawse and me was young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains


THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track
Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you.
Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains


THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far
Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home!
Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail
Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now it's gold and gold!
Last Line: And we strike it rich.
Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke
Last Line: Is come—is come!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass
Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet.
Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin'
Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys!
Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!"
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains


THE PEACE OF PRAIRIES, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: To heal my spirit's ill there seemed no cure
Last Line: And peace where skies bend low to kiss the plain.
Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains


THE PRAIRIE, by DIANA ULINE GROVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is it that holds me on this prairie unadorned?
Last Line: My soul cried out and found its god.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


THE PRAIRIE, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies are blue above my head
Last Line: Rapt in a dream of god.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone
Last Line: Alone— forever alone!
Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness


THE PRAIRIE PATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the brown and frozen sod
Last Line: The fields of immortality
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school
Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more.
Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students


THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the prairie singer
Last Line: I am the prairie singer.
Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains


THE PRAIRIE TOWN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town
Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north.
Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains


THE PRAIRIE WIND, by JESSIE KENNEDY SNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The prairie wind is ever constant, yet
Last Line: The night-wind with its crooning slumber-song.
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing
Last Line: Those of inland america.
Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America


THE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the gardens of the desert, these
Last Line: And I am in the wilderness alone.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills
Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow
Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains


THE SINGER, by DENISE BARRETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the ecru summer grass
Last Line: A prairie jenny lind.
Subject(s): Lind, Jenny (1820-1887); Prairies; Wind; Plains


THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing
Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains


THINGS I HAVE SEEN, by CLELL GANNON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen cherries hanging overripe
Last Line: Beneath a sun-soaked sky -- after the rains!
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie
Last Line: For now at last I see.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains


TO MAKE A PRAIRIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Last Line: If bees are few.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


TWO NOCTURNS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat
Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains


VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate
Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing."
Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains


WESTERN HOKKU, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our happiness is
Last Line: And a coyote's cry.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


WHERE PRAIRIES ROLL, by DELLA MCDANIEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where prairies roll, the gods dispel
Last Line: Where prairies roll.
Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains


WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains
Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains


WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick
Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Witching
Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas